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Tuesday, February 10, 2015

Matsumoto's Koshi-Jime

Matsumoto likes groundwork and never hesitates to take the fight to the
ground. Most of the time, she's attempting some form of osaekomi roll
but she is capable of doing strangles and armlocks. She just doesn't do
them that often. One strangle she seems to prefer is koshi-jime, which
she uses against opponents who try ippon-seoi-nage on her. Here in this
video, you can see her strangle her rival Monteiro of Portugal twice
with the same technique.